Garment.



S. C. BRLANGER.

GARMENT.

JAPPLIUATIo-N FILED 11011.13, 1911.

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' SIDNEY CQERLANGER, or NEW YORK, N. Y., assrorNort ro THE Bl v; n. COMPANY, or

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GARMENT.

Speeicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 17, 191e.

Application ledNove'mber 13, 1911. Serial No. 659,989.

To all whom it may. concern:

Be it known that I, SiDNiiY C. EnLANoiiR,

a. citizen of the United States, anda resident lof VNew York city, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

The 'present .'nvention relates to the strengthening 'of elastic fabrics by means o a reinforcement composed of similarly elas' tic fabric, so united asv to contain the full benefits of the double thickness Without sacrificing the required elasticity of the structure' as a whole.

The invention is particularly adapted for use in connection With the manufacture of vIn order to have these gar.;l

underwear. ments properly litthe body of the wear/er, the manufacturers frequently luse an elastic fabric such as webbing, as "a part of .the garment, the balance being` composed of naiiisook and. 'can or' other .suitable .rela` .tively inelastic fabric. p

I. have shown my invention as applied to the elastic insertion at the back ofthe union suit. EX erience' has shown that this .por-

passing through .the active -considcred impossible to unite' two e tion of tie garment requires reinforcing..

Heretofore, whenever it has been attempted to reinforce such'an elastic knit structure, is was customary to avoid .the use of stitches portions of the elastic fabric, since the stitches being composed of inelastic material, would render .the

the united fabricsl the saine degree of elas= ticity 'possessed 'b'y each component part I thereof.

` I have now 'discovered that two .elastic retain their full elastic capacity.

This' resuit .I obtain by uniting the two clastic'fabrios by means of inelastic'thread's traveling' in a zigzag direction over the 'entire elastic poi-tion. Iii-other words, thestitchingfinf stead of progressing from one aperture through the fabric to another aperture in a- Consequently,. the

' IC was conseqi'ientlystraight-line, progresses fromone aperture at the right 'to a second aperture slightly in front of it at the left, 'then backfagainto the right, thensii'nilarly advancing in -a zigzag direction Vin this same fashion, thus forming two parallel 'rows of perforations, the perforations in each row being' located' on lines drawn half waybetween the 'perforations of the'otherrow Elastic fabrics thus united,l will, when streteled, increase the* intervals between the apertures of each .row and as this stretching is not `in the same direction as that takenfa-t any` point bythe. inelastic thread, this inelastic .thread -will,

so 'to speak, lpivot in each'apei'ture and ad,-

justitself Without being .subjected to the' tensionof. the stretchto the altered -position of the aperture in the `stretched fabric.

This zig-zag stitch, th'ethreads of which pass alternately from 'one holeto theother of two parallel Irows of needle holes, isiein.

.ployed .within and in proximity to the edge of the reinforcing str-ip, but as shown inthe drawings, distant from' the end'of 'the'strip being reinforced. The individual stitches con'iposing the zig-zag threads all extendat i an acute angle vto the Wales of the two` ribbed elastic fabrics. fabrics aregunited by' the yuse of thread which in ,itself has 'noelasticity.4v

In thedrawings, Figure 1- representsi the rear portion-.of aunion suit reinforced "at -thccenter of theback. Fig. Qis anenlarged viewshowing lone row of -uniting stitches.

Figv tlie'same as Fig." 2, showing 4the fabrics stretched. Fig. 4 is` the section through the line offFig'. '2,- showing how theA two 4threads-in. each stitch interlock in'e'ach aperture.

The body poi'tionjof the union. suit 'A is finade ofV relatively inelastic-fabric. .The in'- AIn this way the two elastic sei-tion B composed ofa knit, ribbedror i 'otlieielastic fabric of a 'similar nature; at 'C this 'elastic-fabric is reinforcedby "the iiseof a piece of-elastic .fabric of the saine -na-l ture as that composing the insetilnB.- The two elastic parts' are unitedby. 'the stitches vcomposed of threads D andE- interlocking w ith-in the' aperture's-F, asjsh'ovvn at G. Grar-v inents thus reinforced are .just as elastic at' thel point C, as at the adjacent parts cause the` inelastic threads D andv E can adju'st them fabric when stretched, as shown in Fig. 3.' They do not impede Orobstru'et the full selves to the position `of the yield together, as described, wlthout possi' bility of. the formation of gathers or uckers due to thepresence of the stitc ing.

This result is obtained by placing the'apertures through which the threads pass in parallel rows and carrying the thread al- Ways forward without back stitchingv and without overlapping of one stitch by another. This arrangement avoids any drawing forward ofsmall portions of the fabric whereby puckers are formed,

What I claim is:

In a'garment, an elastic, knit, ribbed fabric strip adapted to yield transversely of the ribs or wales, and a reinforcing strip of similar material placed upon and adapted topartially cover the first'namd stri the ribs or Wales of said' strip being para lel to the ribs or wales of the st' named strip so that the two fabrics are yieldable in the same direction, suoli" reinforcing strip being an elastlc seam secured to the first stripbl t e ribs and comextending transversely of posed of zig-zag stitching, the threads of -l which pass alternately from one hole tol 4the other of two parallel rows of. 11eedley holes within and in proximity to the edge of said reinforcing strip but distant'from the end of the strip being reinforced so that the individual stitches all extend at an -acute angle to the wales of the two elastic fabrics.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set '40 my hand in the-presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SIDNEY C. ERLANGER. Witnesses: f

EUGENE EBLE,

LOUIS ALEXANDER. l 

